the best of creepy crawlies
When I was little I used to believe that a centipede walked like a tank- with a track of legs moving one after the other in a cycle.
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When I was 8 I was terrified of huntsman spiders. One day my cousin told me that they could slide right under my bedroom door. I think I blocked under there with clothes to get rid of the space.
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i used to believe that if a moth flew into your ear you would go deaf, to this day i am terrified of moths
I was probably around 4 when I had convinced myself that a bug would crawl into my mouth while I was asleep. I would do my best to fall asleep with my hand covering my mouth. My mom told me later she couldn't figure out why she would find me asleep with my hand over my mouth.
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When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets.
I got word definitions mixed up a lot as a child. I remember mixing up "ancestors" and "maggots". I'd lift rocks in the yards and point at all the little white buggies and tell the neighbor kids they were my ancestors.
I used to think that if you pulled the antenna off of ants they could not talk to one another.
When I was in the 8th grade we moved into a house that had camel crickets in the basement and my new friend next door told me that they were poisonous. To this day, though I know they aren't something in the back of my mind tells be to "be careful of the dreaded camel criket.
I used to believe, and I think much of the basis of this belief was fed through the media, that the world would end when we were all attacked by killer bees from Mexico and South America. I used to look out the window and worry day and night that we were going to be attacked. It got so bad that I had to throw away a toy stuffed bee I had been given by a relative.
When we were younger me and my brother used to rip the wings off greenfly. One time to stop us from torturing one my mum told us we should look after him and his name was Peter. For years we believed that all greenfly were called 'Peter'.
I grew up in the West Indies, and we had tarantulas in the neighbourhood. I was terrified of them, and worried that I would have one in my room one night. I asked my father what they sounded like, and he said "like someone snoring.' I shared my room with my brother. Who snored. I didn't sleep for five years.
When I was about 5 or 6, my older sister convinced me that mosquito bites only itched when the mosquito had been interrupted mid-bite and didn't get to finish the job and seal up the whole. She told me if I held perfectly still and let the mosquito bite me undisturbed, then the bite wouldn't itch. I suffered through a LOT of bites before I finally decided she was wrong!
I grew up in California and we dont have Fire Flies here. When growing up my mom made them out to be like fairies. So when I finally saw a mass of them I was in pure terror. This was at the age of 23.
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Someone told me, as a child, that a hair, once swallowed, turned into a worm.
This was apparently to keep me from putting my long hair into my mouth:-)
I used to think that moths spent the entire day flying towards the Sun, that's why they weren't seen in the day. Then at night, when the Sun went down, they flew back towards the Earth and that's why they were all gathered around people's security lights & stuff. To be honest I'm still not entirely convinced that that isn't actually the case. I'm 26 years old.
I used to believe that if I could keep a worm alive long enough that it would eventually turn into a snake. Unfortunately for the worms, I always kept them in dry boxes.
When I was a kid my dad ground up fruit flies to get at their imaginal discs, which were involved with development of the legs and wings in the adults. I tried to get him to explain this once, and ended up convinced that they were "imaginary" discs (I asked what they looked like, and he said you couldn't see them). For years I couldn't understand the point of grinding them up.
When I was little I was always told not to step on any spiders,bugs were okay but not spiders.If you did it would rain the next day,an odd childhood belief I had but I am suprised that children today,and from different parts of the world believe this myth as well.
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I was once told that white roaches where that color because they just got married.
My brother told his two little girls that the racing snails in the Guinness adverts were really valuable, and that if they ever found any racing snails in the garden they should put them in their pockets and bring them to him so that he could make lots of money. I dread to think of the state of their coat pockets...
My Dad used to place slugs onto a badminton raquet and launch them into next door's garden whilst telling me how much slugs loved to fly. I still believe that they do.